A U.S. military plane crashed Monday in the southern state of Mississippi, killing at least 16 people.

Officials did not give details about where the plane originated from or where it was flying when it went down in a field about 150 kilometers north of Mississippi's capital city, Jackson. The cause of the crash was also not clear.

Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Sarah Burns said only that a KC-130 aircraft "experienced a mishap."

Leflore County Emergency Management Agency Director Frank Randle told reporters that 16 bodies had been recovered from the site of the crash.

Marcus Banks, the fire chief from the city of Greenwood, said debris from the plane was scattered in a radius of about eight kilometers.

一架美國軍用飛機星期一在美國南部密西西比州墜毀，至少16人喪生。

有關官員沒有透露飛機的起飛地和飛行目的地。飛機是在密西西比州首府杰克遜以北約150公里處墜毀的，墜機原因不明。

美國海軍陸戰隊發言人伯恩斯上尉只是說，這架KC-130軍機“遭遇了不測”。

密西西比州利福勒郡緊急事務管理署負責人弗蘭克·蘭德爾告訴記者說，墜機地點已經找到了16具尸體。

格林伍德市消防負責人馬庫斯·班克斯說，飛機殘骸散落在方圓大約8公里的范圍內。